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The Life Of the truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius. Containing A Copious and Circumstantial History of the several Important and Honourable Negotiations In which he was employed; Together with a Critical Account of his Works. Written originally in French. By M. de Burigny
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London, Printed for A. Millar n the Strand; J. Whiston and B. White, at Mr. Boyle's Head; and L. Davis, at Lord Bacon's Head, both in Fleet-Street, 1754. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 120, pp. [xxiv], 368 [369 - 387 Index 388 Errata], contemporary calf, lightly gilt rules on covers, no label; top and base… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Lives of Dr. John Done, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. To which are added, The Autographs of those Eminent Men, now first collected; An Index, and Illustrated Notes
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London: John Major, Fleet-Street..., 1825. 8vo (in 4s), 165 x 95 mms., pp. xviii, 503 [504 colophon], 11 unnumbered leaves of plates, autographs opposite title-page, 52 woodcuts in text, contemporary plum calf, with gilt roll border enclosed borders in blank, central panel with geometric design repeated, spine gilt with ornaments of fishing, all edges gilt; some slight wear… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoirs of Angelus Politianus, Actius Sincerus Sannazarius, Petrus Bembus, Hieronymus Fracastorius, Marcus Antonius Flaminius, and the Amalthei: Translations from their Poetical Works; and Notes & Observations concerning other literary characters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
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Manchester,, Printed by R. & W. Dean & Co. for Cadell and Davies..., 1801. 8vo, 202 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], ii, 211 [212 Errata], fine contemporary polished calf, gilt borders on covers, spine ornately gilt in compartments; upper rear front joint cracked, lacks label, but a very good copy, from the Spetchley Park sale. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of Mahomet. Translated form the French Original, written by the Count of Boulainvilliers
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London: Printed for T. Longman, and C. Hitch..., 1752. 12mo, 166 x 100 mms., pp. iv, 294, contemporary lightly speckled calf, gilt borders on covers, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, dark red leather label; some slight rubbing of binding, but a good to very good copy. The French nobleman and writer Henri de Boulainvilliers… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of The Learned and Pious Dr. Henry More, Late Fellow of Christ's College in Cambridge. To which are annex'd Dives of his Useful and Excellent Letters
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London, Printed and Sold by Joseph Downing in Bartholomew-Close near West-Smithfield, 1710. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 174 x 113 mms., pp. [xxiv], 362 [363 - 366 index, 337 - 338 adverts], fine engraved portrait frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, raised bands between gilt rules on spine, red leather label. A very good to fine copy. … Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine Artist. Containing A Variety of Curious and Interesting Particulars, relative to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and The History of his own Time. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language, and translated form the originla by Thomas Nugent
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London: Printed for T. Davies..., 1771. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 212 x 113 mms., pp. [v] vi - x, 512; [xlvi including contents of both volumes, one gathering in duplicate], 403 [404 Errata],fine engraved portrait of Cellini as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, with red and black morocco labels;… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold, D. D.; Third Edition
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London: B. Fellowes..., 1844. 2 volumes. 8vo, 214 x 135 mms., pp. [v] vi - xxiii [xxiv blank], 322; [v] vi - xvi, 447 [448 blank], including half-title in each volume, engraved portrait of Arnold as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary polished calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, black leather labels; slight cracking of front joint… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Life of Sir Thomas More, By his Son-in-Law, William Roper, Esq. With Notes, and an Appendix of his Letters. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected, By S. W. Singer
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Chiswick: From the Press of C. Whittingham For R. Triphook..., 1822. Small 8vo, 165 x 104 mms., pp. l, 195 [196 colophon], 2, ornament on verso of last blank, egraved portrait as frontispiece, additional engraved plate at page 1, contemporary half hard gain morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt; portrait off-setting on title-page, but a good… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoirs of the Life of The Rev. Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.
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London: Printed for R. Hunter..., 1815. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 213 x 124 mms., pp. [iii] i viii, 189 [190 blank, 191 adverts, 192 blank], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed and worn), red leather label; end-papers a little soiled, joints cracked, extremities worn. In his ODNB entry on Richard Price (1723… Read more about this item Item Price
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Life and Correspondence of David Hume. From the Papers bequeathed by his nephew to the Royal Society of Edinburgh; and other original sources
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Edinburgh: William Tait..., 1846. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 225 x 131 mms., pp. [vii] viii - xvii [xviii blank], 480; [vi], 534, including half-titles, engraved portrait of Hume in each volume, original cloth, paper labels on spine; some light foxing in text, labels chipped, but a very good set. See the review in The Presbyterian… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoirs of Rachel.
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London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn..., 1858. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 186 x 108 mms., pp. xii, 342; [ii], iv, 326, vi, collotype (probably) portrait of Rachel as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco labels; some wear to binding, but a very good set, with the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Angeli Politiani et Aliorum virorum illust Epistolae cum praefatione in Suet. expositionem
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Amstelodami, pud Joan. Janssonium, 1644. 12mo, 123 x 68 mms., pp. [xxiv, including engraved title-page], 610, later calf, rebacked, gilt rules across spine, red morocco label; old end-papers from an incubabulum, armorial bookplate of Joseph Pickford, Junr. on front paste-down end-paper, and the autograph of William [?Dance] on lower margin of title-page, inscription "Joh. Pickford Junr/ January… Read more about this item Item Price
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Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover.
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London: Richard Bentley..., 1855. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes, 186 x 115 mms., pp. [iv], 439 [440 blank]; [ii], 395 {396 blank], engraved frontispiece in each volume, contemporary half hard grain dark green morocco and lighter green morocco on boards; some general wear to bindings, but a good set, with the autograph and date "Walter Charles Urquhart/… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Remains of the Late Tobias Martin of Breage, in Cornwall, Mine Agent, with a Memoir of the Author
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Helston: Printed at the Temple of the Muses by W. Penaluna, 1831. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 178 x 105 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 258, with errata slip tipped in before first page of contents, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, black leather label, with a blank bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper. The work consists… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mother.
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No place, No publisher, [c. 1893]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 147 mms., pp. [2] 3 - 26 [28 - 32 blank], stitched within cream cardboard covers, with gilt lettering, "H. S. A. / 1813-1892." on front cover. The author is given as simply "Father" at the foot of p. 25, then as… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Old Man's Head: Or, Youthful Recollections. With Copper Plates
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London: William Darton..., no date, [1824]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), 138 x 85 mms, pp. 180 [181 engraved advert for Dalton imprints, 182 blank], engraved frontispiece and two other engraved plates, contemporary quarter plum roan, marbled boards (worn and soiled), gilt spine; text fingered, extremities worn; with the inscription "Mary Gregson - 1830" on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Memoires de Monsieur du Guay-Trouin, Lieutenant General des Armees Navales, Commander de l'Orde Royal & Militaire de Saint Louis
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A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1740. 8vo, 162 x 100 mms., pp. [ii], 279 [280 blank], engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, five folding engraved plates of ships opposite pages xxviii, 86, 120 (2 plates), 122, and facing page 160 is a folding engraved plan of Rio de Janeiro, bound in contemporary sheepskin, spine ornately gilt in compartments,… Read more about this item Item Price
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An Outline of the Life of Antonio Rosmini, Founder of the Institute of Charity. With a Short Sketch of His Philosophical System, by Monsignor Gastaldi, Archbishop of Turin, Edited by Father Lockhart. Second Edition
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London: Burns and Oates..., 1880. 12mo, 160 x 100 mms., pp. [9- 10 - 132, attractively bound in red cloth, front cover blocked in gilt within border. A very good to fine copy, but with circular library stamp on title-page A work with a similar title was first published in 1856, and this appears to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Brief Memoirs of Nicholas Ferrar, M. A. And Founder of Clare-Hall, Cambridge, Founder of a Protestant Religious Establishment at Little Giddings, Huntingdonshire; Collected from a Narrative by the Right Reverend Dr. Turner, Formerly Bishop of Ely; Now edited with Additions and Biographical Notices of some of Mr. Ferrar's Contemporaries. By a Clergyman of the Established Church
by FERRAR (Nicholas). TURNER (Francis). [MACDONOG (Terene Michael), editor]:
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Bristol: Printed and Published by J. Chilcott..., 1829. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 181 x 109 mms., pp. [iv], vii [viii blank] [3] 4 - 248, original boards, uncut; binding fragile, with spine cracked and other wear, but with contemporary purchase notes, a transcription of Byron's "Maid of Athens" on the front end-papers, other textual history on verso… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.
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Dublin: Printed for A. Leathley, J. Exshaw, M. Saunders...[inter alia], 1775. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 162 x 97 mms., pp. [ii], 192; [3] 26 - 120, 289 -384, contemporary calf, rebacked, with old label laid, but with hinges rather crudely taped, with an autograph "S West head" on the front paste-down end-paper and another in pencil on… Read more about this item Item Price
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